SATURDAY, MAY 14, 1932.
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The WOMAN'S Page
The Vague Of The Short Fur Coat
CHARMING WEDDING
A pretty bride of twenty-three -the same age as her bride- groom, caused a sensation in Lon- don recently. She looked lovely in a beautiful gown of ivory.net, made over a silver tissue underskirt, and embroidered with allver. With a full court train to match, she wore an old Brussels point lace veil under a diamante headdress. Silver, slip- pers and a bouquet of ivery roses and white heather completed her beautiful ensemble.
Her four bridesmaids were charm- ingly gowned in blue and white! satin frocks, cut with long, pale blue skirts, short white bodices embrof- dered in blue and white diamante, worn with little blue straw hats.
The lovely colour appeared again in the blue hyacinths which went with the pink roses of their bouquets.
a
evening dress would be alightly out of place and yet where certain amount of dressing is demanded. Dresses are being made in satins and moires, pre- ferably in the pale colourings, or even in white, which have bolero bodices with very short sleeves and an underbodice of the material set across in horizontal)
Short fur coats maintain aling or in black. If Н white their popularity, if only because flower is worn, a similar adorn-folds. The horizontal folds are they are comfortable and suit ment may be used for the hat. sometimes continued down the able for wearing with the light With mole suits white gloves with hips, ending in a point on one of wool dresses now in vogue. It gauntlets are seen. Some of the them. Into these folds a circu- is not easy to find a coat which white lace gloves with gauntlets lar skirt is let which fits high up, goes with almost everything, and that fall over and make cuffs are but which is really full round the for the most part it can only be used with them.
edge. If necessary the dress may produced in fur. The Lelong Bolero frocks are becoming be made so that the bolero takes model is made of antelope, and it for those with fairly long_thighs off and reveals full evening differs from others by the use In some cases the bolero is mere- dress with a slanting neckline of two shades of the fur. The ly outlined on the bodice, either corresponding with, but in the upper part and the crossed front with braiding or with openwork. opposite direction to, the pohit are dark, while the basque and Sometimes it is really separate on the hip. A large on the hip. the points of light fur up the over a vest. Dark blue dresses A large yellow flower may be! S62]||||||| 133||||||||ā front allow of & lighter dress.are made of soft wools with worn on the bolero.
The dress here shown is made of openwork in lines across the Moire is being revived for the
a back, showing white underneath less formal dress. pale green fancy wool with
It has the turned-down collar finished and with similar lines down the advantage of being able to be with a tie. The Maria Guy hat skirt at the sides. The fitting made up on very simple and even
A Wise Economy In Your carries on the dark and light sleeves may also be lined at the tailored lines.
Wardrobe. For semi-even- idea. Both coat and dress pro- upper arm. Full backs to skirta ing, it is being worn in black or The lining of a coat usually very simple, slightly allow of plain fronts to a "lined" some of the peacock blues in a gets soiled, shabby or worn long tailored effect. There is a sort dress. Some of the dark dresses dull tone with a very short fur before the coat material shows tuous for really good coats. of panel down the front of the are worn with little caps, which wrap of squirrel. The wrap is
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circular skirt, and the ridges made by the sewing of the fur carry out the simple severe look of the whole. This could be worn in the street, at the races, on almost any occasion but the most formal. -
Another practical whole con- sists of a long corduroy coat and skirt, Sometimes a corduroy
hat goes with it, but hats made of the same material as the coat are only really smart when S..................12|||||||||||J[6]||||||||||fashion says so, and not because
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Mole-
of their infrinsic merit. coloured corduroy is better than the blues and greens... Coats are made long and with a fairly high waist. Collars and revers and buttons are all used in the in- terests of the double breast. A pink, yellow, or white flower is sometimes" added to the collar. The corduroy coat should really be a top-coat with a skirt to match. With the skirt can be
Lustrons Oil Permanent Hair Waves worn blouses and jumpers of
made broad on the shoulders and reaching scarcely to the waist. There is usually a fairly conspi- cuous waist-belt which may be rather high, and below this a fitting skirt which widens out very much round the ankles, giving a Bell shape.
Wide waist-belts are on the increase. This is a step toward | the high waist, which is seen here and there. There are six- inch waist-belts which make the best of both worlds and leave it
to the choice of the beholder to
say whether the waist is high or not so high, Moire, used for skirts, should always have. a certain amount of give, otherwise it la apt to split. Afternoon suits are being made of black moire with fairly easy, circular skirts and cardigan Jacketa. These allow of sumptuous topa of a satin which is just off white or even verging into the mauves that ap-||
RELINING A COAT.
There are many materials to then slip in the sleeve inning choose from for linings, both and pin-then tack in posiți | plain and patterned. It is just down the seams.hu
as well to remember that silks
Turn in and slire-stitch and satins do not wear so well as lining at the wrists, leaving hal mixture" fabrics, although, of an inch of the coat material course, they look more sump showing below the lining; turn For a medium-sized coat about in the upper end of the sleev two yards of lining would be lining, and hem with strong Bill
or coloured cotton." needed for a short coat, and three yards for a full-length one. Last of all, turn in and slip, In cutting the back width it is stitch the neck edge
and
a good plan to allow an extra sew a loop of material in the couple of inches in the centre centre for hanging up the coat. and form this into a box-pleat Press all the edges with n which will allow for stretching, warm iron, paying particular
Fixing and Suitclting. tention to the bottom of the When all the lming is cut out, cost, which may need a fairly stitch the shoulder and side, hot iron and a damy doth seams and also the sleeve seams, give it a professional finish, and press them well with a hot iron and damp cloth. Now pin the shoulder and side seams of coat and lining together, and when correctly fixed tack them With silk to match the material. Now turn in the front edges and the bottom of the lining first pinning-and then tacking them into position. Great care must be taken not to drag the lining, but to leave it loose enough to prevent any stretch- ing The bottom of the Immig should be quite an inch shorter
which are Large Bort and Natural wool, jersey, crepe de Chine, may be knitted, but which are pear in some of the freesias, signs of wear. It is not at all than the coat, and should be Artistic Finger and Marcel. Waves, Ou georgette. They may match or often of cut felt or felt and Dead white is also seen, and in difficult to re-line a coat, even eased up a little in stitching to Treatment, Shampootsg, Hessa Pack make a contrast, and one of the straw mixed. (any colour), Hair Cutting, and Mani-
The plan of that case there is usually a touch for the girl who has not done a fit the coat loosely, care for Ladies and Gentlemen-points of mole, is the number of trimming the hat with the of yellow or red somewhere, great amount of needlework Use a neat all-stitch for at- selencious, Artistic Work by European pale colourings which go with it, material of the dress still ob- either in the scarf or the bag The first step is to remove taching the lining to the coat, Expert, Mr. Alexandler, Di
pale yellow being among the tains, especially where spotted This must not be as emphatic as carefully the old lining and un- taking care that no-stitches show CHARGES MODERATE.
prettiest. With the mole coat materials are used.
is the case when colour is used pick one half of it to be used as through on the right side may he worn a straw or straw Tere are a good many between with less formal clothes, a pattern for cutting out the new Tack mixt and felt hat in the same colour-occasions just now, where an
Honestlyombol gether
A VISIT WILL CONVINCE YOU,
POP
Too Great A Shock,
DID YOU KNOCK
HIM
OVER
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TO LET HIM GO
ACROSS
By. J. MILLAR WATT.
HONG KONG BENEVOLENT SOCIETY.